PricewaterhouseCoopers’ engagement with the Academy is a continuing source of pride for the Firm.

PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Entertainment and Media (EandM) practice is comprised of a network of more than 3,000 practitioners providing audit, advisory and tax services to help clients manage risk, maximize shareholder value and support MandA activities.

PricewaterhouseCoopers (www.pwc.com) provides industry-focused assurance, tax and advisory services to build public trust and enhance value for its clients and their stakeholders.

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MultiVu - PricewaterhouseCoopers Predicts Fewer Medals for U.S. Olympic Team in Athens Than in Sydney(Site not responding. Last check: )

According to PricewaterhouseCoopers' analysis, the former Soviet bloc countries are expected to outperform at the 2004 Athens Games - so too, is the host nation.

For other countries, the model estimates tend to be more similar to performance at Sydney, but may prove useful as a standard against which to calibrate how well a country really does at the Athens Olympics in the light of its size, income levels, political history and past performance.

Overall, the PricewaterhouseCoopers model is able to explain nearly 90% of the variation in medal shares across countries in recent Olympic Games, although this still leaves some room for other factors, such as outstanding individual athletic performances, to play a part as well.

PricewaterhouseCoopersLLP and Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:SUNW) today announced they will provide a joint solution to help companies leverage identity management to sustain Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, improve security and increase process efficiencies.

By working with PricewaterhouseCoopers and Sun, companies can design and deploy an identity management solution that will help them maintain secure access control and help them meet certain aspects of their regulatory compliance requirements.

PricewaterhouseCoopers has developed a methodology for identity management implementations based on its experience with over 125 identity and access management deployments.

PricewaterhouseCoopers won’t comment on specific allegations but calls the Virginia regulator’s charges “baseless” and notes that even the suit states ROA had misled it.

PricewaterhouseCoopers has already forked out $55 million to settle a shareholder lawsuit stemming from the case but admitted no wrongdoing.

PricewaterhouseCoopers in July agreed to pay $5 million to settle charges brought by the SEC that its auditors approved improper accounting and that it violated independence standards for several clients in the past.

PricewaterhouseCoopers has managed the Academy Awards balloting process since 1935, all but the first six years of the Oscars.

PricewaterhouseCoopers manages the balloting at the direction of the Academy, including mailing the ballots to eligible members; manually tabulating the ballots in accordance with the Academy's rules; and maintaining the secrecy of the winners until they are announced during the Awards show.

During the live telecast, the two PricewaterhouseCooperspartners (and their guards) remain backstage and physically hand the envelopes to the presenters of the various awards just moments before their introduction and presentation.

The layoffs are part of PricewaterhouseCoopers' efforts to realign its staff with a market that's demanding more expertise in areas such as customer-relationship management, strategy consulting, and E-marketplaces, a spokeswoman says.

While the layoffs represent only about 3% of PricewaterhouseCoopers' 15,000 consultants in the United States, the move could signal that the company is again close to finding a suitor for its management consulting practice.

Hewlett-Packard was in discussions briefly last year with PricewaterhouseCoopers to acquire the management consulting practice for $15 billion to $18 billion.

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PricewaterhouseCoopers Plans More Layoffs - News by InformationWeek(Site not responding. Last check: )

PricewaterhouseCoopers is using the economic slowdown as an opportunity to restructure its consulting force and trim inefficiencies, says a company spokeswoman.

PricewaterhouseCoopers, which had revenue of $21.5 billion last year, doesn't deny that by pruning its staff, it also is preparing to spin off or sell its management-consulting business.

PricewaterhouseCoopers has been talking with suitors about its management-consulting business since ending negotiations with Hewlett-Packard last November.

PricewaterhouseCoopers HIPAA Practice leaders dispel some of the popular myths circulating about HIPAA and shed light on the scope and magnitude of the effort providers will need to undertake to achieve even basic compliance with HIPAA's TCS Requirements.

As a service to its healthcare clients and the healthcare industry, PricewaterhouseCoopers has prepared a Guide to the Final HIPAA Privacy Regulations, The Guide was prepared by the HIPAA privacy specialists in our Healthcare Advisory, and explores the important elements of the final privacy rules.

PricewaterhouseCoopers refers to the network of member firms of PricewaterhouseCoopers Ltd., each of which is a separate and independent legal entity.

The full report is issued twice yearly at the full and half year, and top-line quarterly estimates are issued for the first and third quarters.

Conducted by the New Media Group of PricewaterhouseCoopersLLP, the "Advertising Revenue Report" was started by the IAB in 1996, and represents data from all companies that report meaningful online advertising revenues.

PricewaterhouseCoopersLLP (www.pwc.com), the world's largest professional services organization, helps its clients build value, manage risk and improve their performance.

The strategic alliance between PricewaterhouseCoopers and BMC Software will combine the industry and security expertise of PricewaterhouseCoopers' professionals with BMC Software's best of breed technology to solve the compelling problem of how to provide strong security, access control, permissions and workflow to enable an organization's e-business to thrive.

About PricewaterhouseCoopers Security and Privacy Practice PricewaterhouseCoopers Security and Privacy Practice (www.pwcglobal.com/security) is a global leader in information security, with more highly trained professionals in the field than any other organization.

PricewaterhouseCoopers is a privacy conscious global organisation and is strongly committed to your right to privacy.

PricewaterhouseCoopers is a global leader in the development and implementation of privacy assurance and third party verification services.

PricewaterhouseCoopers encourages all visitors to review these web seal initiatives, investigate the programs, and actively seek a web seal in all sites that you visit and provide personally identifiable information.

In a closely watched legal case, PricewaterhouseCoopers may have to face a California jury -- despite a contract that had ruled out a jury trial.

PricewaterhouseCoopers, the accounting firm, has agreed to pay $41.9 million to settle claims that it overbilled the federal government for travel over 11 years, the Justice Department said Monday.

For accountants at PricewaterhouseCoopers, the audit of the American International Group has become a balancing act -- moving carefully to satisfy themselves and moving quickly to satisfy their client.

The report shows that investor confidence in the mining industry and its prospects have continued to strengthen: over the last two years mining stocks have outperformed both the SandP 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average by over 300%, and in 2005 alone the industry's market capitalisation increased by 72% to $791bn.

PricewaterhouseCoopers (http://www.pwc.com) provides industry-focused assurance, tax and advisory services to build public trust and enhance value for its clients and their stakeholders.

PricewaterhouseCoopers is a leading adviser to the global mining industry, working with a wide variety of explorers, producers and related service providers to ensure we meet the challenges of the global mining industry into the future.

NEW YORK, Nov. 22, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- PricewaterhouseCoopers announced today that aggregate global gross revenues of PricewaterhouseCoopers firms for the fiscal year ended 30 June2004 rose to $17.6 billion, an increase of 4% in local currencies and just over 11% in US dollars from the previous year's $15.8 billion.

On a global basis, net aggregate revenues from assurance services rose nearly 10% to $8.7 billion, aggregate taxrevenues were flat at $4.5 billion, and advisory services increased by just over 6% to $3.1 billion.

PricewaterhouseCoopers today also released its 2004 Global Annual Review, which examines PwC's performance in meeting the needs of its clients and itspeople on crucial issues such as creating sustainable value, building public trust, attracting, respecting and retaining outstanding people and providing leadership on key professional issues.

Research by PricewaterhouseCoopers shows that more than half of institutional investors and analysts believe that good governance and disclosure about sustainability issues are critical indicators of a company's value."

PricewaterhouseCoopers' highly-skilled team of economists, statisticians, and regulatory experts has substantial experience with all types of lenders and loan products and keenly understands the fair lending risks inherent to each stage of the origination process.

With our blend of regulatory experience, industry knowledge, and state-of-the-art technologies, we are well-positioned to assist you with your fair lending compliance risk management needs.

PricewaterhouseCoopers refers to the individual member firms of the worldwide PricewaterhouseCoopers organisation.

Internet advertising revenues rose to an all-time quarterly high of nearly $2.3 billion in the first quarter of 2004, according to research estimates from the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).

That's the highest quarterly total since the two began tracking revenues in 1996, marking a pronounced recovery from the dot-com doldrums.

The first quarter estimates also showed a 39.8 percent increase over the $1.6 billion brought in during the first quarter of 2003.

Not merely the firm with the longest one-word name, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is also one of the world's largest accounting firms, formed when Price Waterhouse merged with Coopers and Lybrand in 1998, passing then-leader Andersen.

The report, entitled "Twenty-Five Years of Indexing," was conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers and is believed to be the first systematic appraisal of the benefits of indexing.

Among the findings: Since the first index fund was launched, in 1973, indexing has saved US tax-exempt investors somewhere between $80 billion to $105 billion.

Over the past 10 years, the average active manager in the US and the UK has underperformed the index by up to 1.7% per year, or by as much as 3.2% per year when survivorship bias and fees are taken into account, the report says.